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The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
wiley   +1 more source

‘Pre‐Technologies’ and the Lifeworld: Assistive Technologies as ‘Pre‐Technologies’ for Self‐Formation as Freedom

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article identifies assistive technologies (ATs) as ‘pre‐technologies’ mediating access to other technologies for disabled subjects (DSs). The motivation is to show that without ATs, DSs cannot be said to have the same level of access to freedom and self‐forming activities as able‐bodied subjects.
Sarel Marais
wiley   +1 more source

Glycemic Regulation and Renal Function by Heavy Metal Exposure: A Cross‐Sectional Analysis on Cement Plant Workers

open access: yesJournal of Applied Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Heavy metal exposure is known to have various effects on renal function and blood glucose regulation. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of cement dust and some metal (cadmium, manganese, nickel, and zinc) exposure on blood glucose and renal function parameters in male cement plant workers.
Duygu Seyhan Erdoğan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Compassion Focused Therapy to Address Shame and Guilt: A Case Study of a Client With Complex PTSD

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents the case of “Ava” a woman in her late 40s diagnosed with ICD‐11 Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD), whose life was shaped by chronic childhood abuse, pervasive shame, and intense self‐criticism. Ava struggled with intrusive trauma memories, relational hypervigilance, fears of compassion, and enduring guilt ...
Deborah Lee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mentalizing difficulties are transdiagnostic and explain links between mental health and neurodevelopmental symptoms and social adjustment in school‐aged children

open access: yesJCPP Advances, EarlyView.
Growing evidence suggests that difficulties reasoning about others' thoughts, feelings and desires (called ‘mentalizing’ or ‘theory of mind’) cut across many mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions but studies have yet to test this claim directly.
Rory T. Devine   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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